Incessant Occurrence of Accidents Worries Lagosians

By Raheem Akingbolu

With many Nigerians fallen victims of road accidents, Lagos residents have continued to mount pressure on government to find lasting solution to infrastructural deficiencies leading to frequent loss of lives. Between December and now, cases of accidents in Lagos and its environs are unimaginable.

On Wednesday 30 January, 2013 in Ogba Lagos, a commercial motor cyclist, in attempt to run away from the police from Area ‘D’ Police Command, Ogba, rammed into an oncoming vehicle along Yaya Abatan.

In another ugly development, a multiple accident, which involved commercial buses and private cars in Ikoyi, led to the death of three people with others sustaining various degrees of injuries. 

If the two instances were considered serious the two accidents that occurred along Lagos-Ibadan express road in December was fatal. As a reporter, this writer was on a tour with the head of Lagos State Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in December, when a the team received a signal that an accident had occurred around Redeemed Camp. The scene of the accident was gory as many lifeless bodies were found in their pull of blood.

Few minutes before leaving the scene, they received another call that fresh accident had occurred at Otedola Link Bridge, along Lagos Ibadan Expressway where an articulated tanker vehicle carrying 33,000 litres of petrol reportedly lost control hitting four other vehicles.

At least two unidentified persons lost their lives in the fatal accident.